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New York Theatre Barn will host a free live stream of its New Works Series on Wednesday, May 20th.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced a week devoted to dance from Saturday, May 30 to Thursday, June 4, 2020.

Juggerknot Theatre Company will present Long Distance Affair!

Welcome to The Out of Work Actors' Cooking Show! Today, hosts Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker lead you through a simple recipe for roasted vegetables and Spaghetti Alla Bagna Cauda.

Lincoln Center has released a new video in its Pop-Up Classroom series! Join Deb as we take a close look at San Francisco Ballet's production of 'Romeo and Juliet.

SheNYC Arts, the country's premiere program for showcasing up-and-coming women writers and composers, has announced that their 2020 Summer Theater Festivals in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta will move to an online format.

May 14, 2020 - d'ILLUSION: The Houdini Musical announces the launch of an audiobook set for the end of Summer 2020.

The full original Off-Broadway cast of Jonathan Spector's play Eureka Day will reunite for a one-night only online charity reading, benefitting Colt Coeur and No Kid Hungry.

Source Material will present the World Premiere of In These Uncertain Times, a digital performance piece devised by the company and directed by Artistic Director, Samantha Shay, created for and presented on Zoom.

For one evening only, on Sunday, May 17 at 6 pm ET, artists Troy Anthony and Jerome Ellis will open a space for the public to honor the healers in our communities, address the racialized and gendered injustices exposed by the coronavirus and more.

 Music & lyrics by singer/songwriter Michelle Lee and book by Michelle Lee and Allison Chaney Whitmore, Love is Love is Love is a contemporary new musical about a group of people who are invited to an event in New York City to speak about their lives in the public eye - but none of them are prep

As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Beat by Beat Press has introduced the world's first virtual children's musical, The Show Must Go Online!, created in less than three weeks with the goal of helping theatre groups continue to perform in these times of social distance.

 The Riant Theatre will present an Online Play Reading on Zoom of WALTER'S DEAD by Mario Corry on Sunday, May 17th at 7pm.

Today we're learning about silhouettes in visual art, and exploring ways to bring them to life in a Silhouette Workshop, as part of Lincoln Center's Pop-Up Classroom series!

Playwrights Mona Mansour and Stav Palti-Negev discuss their Middle Eastern and American identities, how culture impacts their work, and how the current crisis is felt around the world.

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse will present a 'screened' reading of Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook's one-act comedy, SUPPRESSED DESIRES, via live stream video, with special guest J ELLEN GAINOR participating in a post-show talk on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 8 PM, EST.

This week, MCC's LiveLab virtual one act play festival LiveLabs presents a reading of Frankie & Will by Talene Monahon, directed by Jaki Bradley.

The Sa?'ng Collective, in partnership with Second Generation Productions (2g), will present Collective Stories, an evening of works by 10 multidisciplinary Vietnamese artists.

Theater in Quarantine is a new performance laboratory from writer/director/performer Joshua William Gelb dedicated to the exploration of the theatrical experience inside the digital space.

NYU Skirball's Virtual Book Club will focus on Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire, longlisted for the 2017 year's Man Booker Prize, on Friday, May 15 from 5 a?" 6 pm, via Zoom.

While the doors of Irondale, a think-tank for cutting edge, artist-driven theater and the home of the Irondale Ensemble, remain closed amidst the Coronavirus outbreak, the ensemble is re-imagining their critically acclaimed mega-text, The 1599 Project through a 4-part virtual series, streaming live:

Sing for Hope today announced it has launched a new initiative called 'SingforHopeGrams' to bring moments of music and connection directly to people's lives while providing employment for artists from Broadway, opera, and more as the world's stages remain dark due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Obie Award winner Metropolitan Playhouse presents Zero Boy in the persona of Johnny Z, loveable gangster, hosting this week's sonic storytelling and improvisational repartee:

This module explores how to shape the needs and desires for your central character by using two theatre games and viewing scenes from MTC's Tony Award-winning production of August Wilson's JITNEY to illustrate dramatic conflict.

Take a songwriting workshop with Damian, as part of Lincoln Center's Pop-Up Classroom! Experiment with different musical structures and choices to create your own unique groove.